The performances on American Idol shows have a huge effect on album sales. One week after performing on the show Phillip Phillips saw sales of his "World From the Side of the Moon" jump 90% to 22,000 units for the week, bringing his total to 771K. That was good enough to jump him back up to #18 on the BillBoard chart. On the flip side, two weeks after Angie Miller performed "Never Gone" on the show, Colton Dixon saw sales for his "The Messenger" drop back to more normal numbers after a big jump last week. His BillBoard rank is back in the mid 100's as expected (#120). Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood continue to have steady sales with about the same numbers again, 10K in sales for each of them bringing Kelly's "Greatest Hits" album total to 331K and Carrie's "Blown Away" to 1.356M. Carrie's "Blown Away" along with Scotty McCreery's "Clear as Day" and Kelly's "Stronger" have pushed my overall graph too big to see the lower sales folks so I will again show both versions of my graph, the overall and the closer in one too.
